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Coolest Dora Castle Cake 448
by Rebecca
(Victoria, Australia)
Homemade Dora Castle Cake
My daughter wanted a Dora princess cake for her 4th birthday (we had already had a Dora birthday in previous years so I had to be more creative!), so this Dora Castle Cake is what I came up with (a Dora doll cake and a castle cake).
I used a Dolly Varden tin and baked a butter cake for the doll, then used a Dora doll from my daughter's collection (the snow princess dolls fit this size). I iced her in buttercream then put a layer of yellow premade icing over the top for her skirt. I decorated her skirt with icing flowers purchased at the supermarket, very convenient! I dressed the doll up top in purple cellophane to complete her.
The castle is simply pre purchased jam rolls made into turrets with skewers securing them upright on top of each other. They are iced with purple buttercream and topped with mini marshmallows and 4 candles. The piece on the top is a snowglobe type thing that we had at home that fit perfectly :) The final accents (the door and castle wall on top) on the castle are made of purple premade icing.
I joined the cakes together as a scene by creating a path out of spearmint leaves, musk sticks and the leftover yellow flowers from the supermarket flower packet mentioned earlier, and other characters from the show.
